Social Work

Policy documents are created by governmental and nongovernmental organizations to provide research and analysis on a specific topics that can influence opinion and practice for social programs and benefits developed and maintained by the government or private sector.   There are several ways to access policy documents.  This guide will provide you with some key sources for policy documents.

Canadian Policy Institutes

• Canadian Council on Social Development
• Canadian Index of Wellbeing
• Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations 
• Canadian Policy Research Networks
• Children's Health Policy Centre
• The Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
• The Council of Canadians
• Institute for Social Research (York University)
• Employment and Social Development Canada
• Social Research and Demonstration Corporation Canada
• Vanier Institute of the Family
• National Collaborating Centres for Public Health

Websites

• Provincial policy instruments for public health (Public Health Agency of Canada. Canadian Best Practices Portal)
• Canadian Counsel on Social Development
• Maytree: social assistance resources including disability by province. 
• World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers
• Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH Hub) 

  •  "IGH Hub is a "one-stop shop" to connect thought leaders, advocates, academics, and on-the-ground experts to one another and to ideas and practice to ease and advance their work. It was developed in partnership with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness."

• Age of Inquiry: A global mapping of institutional abuse inquiries